Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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